B&W photo, 1940s. An elderly Acadian woman reaching for strings of garlic suspended from rafters, near Crowley, Louisiana. Written on photo: "At the time of this photograph, she was 103, her husband 93. They eke out a meagre existence by catching...

The unpublished manuscript "The Negro in Louisiana" is a work begun by the Dillard (University) Project in 1942, an arm of the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. After the dissolution of the unit, Marcus Christian maintained and edited the document in...

An Honors Thesis Presented to The University Honors Program of Loyola University New Orleans In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English Writing with University Honors